The ship's company of RFA Gold Rover, commanded by Captain P. T. Taylor, collected £234 for Weymouth lifeboat station and the money was presented to Coxswain Vic Pitman (1.) by Chief Officer J. Carew at Portland last January. With... - View image in PDF
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JANUARY.
Launches 50. Lives Rescued 35.
JAN. 2ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Early in the morning a number of fishing boats went to sea. At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea...
Category: Services
At 10 P.M. on the 3rd March the Coastguard received a telephone message from the Kentish Knock Light-vessel stating that a vessel was making distress signals on the Kentish Knock Sands. Within a quarter of an hour the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza...
Honorary Secretary Stanley Power {right) introduces the Dunmore East crew to Mr Peter Barry, Minister for Transport and Power in the Republic of Ireland, and Mrs Barry, who named the lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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Eight years worth of beard was shaved off Gordon Peters and Ray Chapman in front of a large crowd at the Country House Hotel in Ellacombe, Torquay, by local hairdresser Steve Siampourou. The reason was that £231 had been offered for the... - View image in PDF
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177,238 269 31,696 9,716 41,106 12,253 1,913 2.895 58,167 2,832 55~335 4,180 12,580 995 452 2,832 21,039 18,763 27,073 26 45,862 42,263 10,376 44,092 851 798 56,117 22,177 4,315 267 26.759 10,656 806 102,807 8,338 4,771 7,188 1,840 136,406...
Category: Accounts
Whltby, Yorkshire.-—At noon on the 26th of January, 1952, the second coxswain reported that the local motor fishing vessel Pilot Me II had wire- lessed that she was making for the harbour. A strong northerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy...
75 years ago the British Navy attempted an audacious wartime operation. It would change the course of the Second World War – and challenge our lifeboats to tackle a very different kind of...
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AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, 1870, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., President of the Institution, in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports